{"id":172,"date":"2020-10-05T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quada1.wpenginepowered.com\/quad-a-mourns-the-loss-of-past-president-harlan-pollock\/"},"modified":"2025-06-05T15:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T15:43:25","slug":"aaaasf-mourns-the-loss-of-past-president-harlan-pollock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/blog-posts\/aaaasf-mourns-the-loss-of-past-president-harlan-pollock\/","title":{"rendered":"Quad A Mourns the Loss of Past President Harlan Pollock"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/f.hubspotusercontent30.net\/hubfs\/6276684\/Imported_Blog_Media\/Dr_-Harlan-Pollock-for-web-200x300-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7951\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Quad A is saddened to announce that Past President, Harlan Pollock, MD<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;FACS<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 8<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">passed away on September 30, 2020,&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dalla<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, Texas<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Pollock served as Quad A\u2019s board president from 2010 through 20<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">1<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">2<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Prior to his presidency he s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">erved as vice president for the board of directors and chaired many committees such as the strategic planning committee and standards committee.&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">During his presidency, Dr. Pollock spearheaded&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Quad A Patient Safety First campaign.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Pollock is remembered at Quad A for his warmth and compassion for staff and other board members and volunteers. He was a consen<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">sus builder who championed the organization\u2019s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;mission of patient safety. Dr. Pollock conducted surveys&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and mentored new surveyors&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">throughout the United States and in Costa Rica to e<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">nsure that <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Quad A\u2019s reach extended to patients everywhere. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dr. Pollock&nbsp;<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">retired from<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&nbsp;North Dallas Plastic Surgery<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, where he worked with his son Todd Pollock, MD FACS, after 44 years in practice<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">His full obituary can be viewed at\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/dallas-tx\/harlan-pollock-9384467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">DignityMemorial.com<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quad A is saddened to announce that Past President, Harlan Pollock, MD&nbsp;FACS, 82,&nbsp;passed away on September 30, 2020,&nbsp;in&nbsp;Dallas, Texas.&nbsp;Dr. Pollock served as Quad A\u2019s board president from 2010 through 2012.&nbsp;Prior to his presidency he served as vice president for the board of directors and chaired many committees such as the strategic planning committee and standards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quada.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}